Incredibly dry hands - help!

Not sure if this ought to be health rather than beauty, it's somewhere in between! Due to bottles, looking after the dog and the baby etc my hands are bloody dry. The skin feels taught and they look worn and tired and some parts are also getting sore. I can't be the only one who has had this, can anyone tell me what helped them? I have been using Moa Green Balm but it takes a while to sink in so isn't practical during the day.

Stick on a pair of moisturising gloves at night time. You just lather your hands in moisturiser and put on a pair of gloves that look like Mickey Mouse gloves and sleep with them on. You can get them from boots, SuperDrig etc, but I got mine from the pound shop and they work just the same.

I often get very dry knuckles which then split (from washing hands, forgetting to moisturise and pushing pushchair around every day). Once they are sore/split, the only thing works for me is sudocream.

I now have different hand creams dotted around the house. I'm using Soap and Glory Hand Food and L'occitane when downstairs. In bathroom is L'occitane Shea hand cream and hand scrub (to use at night) and by my bed is the Bodyshop almond hand cream.

I had this problem, a bit of effort (and posting here, see my posts about rubbish nails!) and now I don't recognise my hands! Firstly, I have hand dream everywhere!! Pump bottles by all sinks, the bodyshop almond hand cream (which personally I find much MUCH better than the smelly hemp stuff) in my drawer at work and in my handbag, and a pump of la source from Crabtree next to the bed. This and the blue bottle of mavala magic-whatever-it's-called for my nails and my hands are unrecognisable!!

Almond oil. Take a small handful off salt, add some almond oil and start rubbing. Wash hands, then some more almond oil and pair of cotton gloves. You can combine this with housework by putting rubber gloves over the cotton ones. An hour later take them off and bingo - lovely hands!

I also find Aveeno very good, it was recommended to me on here a while ago. A dermatologist also recommended something for hand washing when they're very sore & cracked called Cetaphil Restoraderm body wash. Using that instead of soap has helped my cracked hands to heal.

I've found that wearing cotton gloves was useless as the gloves absorbed some of the moisturiser instead of the whole lot soaking into my hands. I never wore them after that.

I've found that Cracked Heel Cream by Kingsley House (normally found in the pound shops but any of that cream will do) did the best job as I would have my hands in all sorts of chemicals like bleach, disinfectants, multi-purpose cleaners etc, and the cracked heel cream worked as an all purpose moisturiser. I even use it on my chapped lips and it works a treat.